Rare earth metals including yttrium and europium are one of several
critical raw materials, the use of which ensures the development of the
so-called high technology. The possibility of their recovery in Europe
is limited practically only to secondary materials such as phosphogypsum
and electronic waste.

The article presents the results of our research concerning the
development of recovery technology of yttrium and europium from
luminophore CRT used lamps. It describes the principle of separation of
elements and the test results of cleaning the concentrate. It was shown
that the costs of preparing the concentrate according to the proposed
technology are lower than the phosphogypsum processing technology and
the composition of the resulting product does not contain hazardous
substances.